About the Authors

Anupam Kumar

Affiliation Department of Experimental Therapeutics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Hui Gao

Affiliation Department of Hematopathology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Jia Xu

Affiliations Department of Molecular and Cellular Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

James Reuben

Affiliations Department of Hematopathology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Dihua Yu

Affiliations Department of Molecular and Cellular Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Kapil Mehta

kmehta@mdanderson.org

Affiliations Department of Experimental Therapeutics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AK KM. Performed the experiments: AK JX HG. Analyzed the data: AK HG KM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JR DY. Wrote the paper: AK KM.